Art activity: Posters

Objective
Students create posters that reinforce messages about handwashing with soap.

Time
10 minutes

What You Need

 * Paper and colorful pens
 * Optionally: glue to add depth to the poster
 * Optionally: Magazines so students can cut out images.

Activity
Explain: If you have glue, students can also be creative about how to give the poster some depth. For example, pictures cut from newspapers and magazines, recycled packaging, cellophane, and food wrappers can all add depth.
 * Please design posters about handwashing with soap for display around the school or community.
 * You should combine words and pictures to share their message. For example, a picture of a family that says, “We do not bring poop into our household!” 
 * Be creative and think of all the good things about the healthy behaviors.
 * For students who cannot write: I will write the short message on your poster that you tell to me.
 * For students learning to write: I will write the short message on paper that you tell to me. You can then copy the message onto your poster.

 Options: Students can illustrate one of the stories they have read or one of the skits the class made.

Resources: Images of Germs
Images of germs, if you want to draw germs:
 * Rotavirus (causes diarrhea) http://viralzone.expasy.org/all_by_species/107.html
 * Measles http://www.iavireport.org/Back-Issues/Pages/IAVI-Report-15(3)-AVaccinesLittleHelper.aspx
 * Tooth decay

Options:
 * <p style="margin-bottom:0in">http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-6928492-happy-shiny-tooth.php
 * <p style="margin-bottom:0in">http://myteeth.co.za/blog/?p=1721
 * <p style="margin-bottom:0in">Cold and flu viruses http://studenthealth.ucsf.edu/cold
 * <p style="margin-bottom:0in">Posters can be put up in the class, the school, or around the community
 * <p style="margin-bottom:0in">An art contest can span the class, the school, or multiple schools

Key Words
Arts, Prevention, Reminder, Handwashing, Diarrhea, Soap, Outreach